Flex t9: very flexible input app. Voice recognition and an excellent keyboard which allows you to slide your finger over the keyboard to write. Takes some getting used to but spookily accurate.

Flickr free: Flickr pic uploaded.

Gmail: Google mail!

Goggles: search by taking and submitting a pic. Uncanny.

Got to do: ok to do app that syncs with Toodledo.

Latitude: your very own personal stalker. Hasn’t really caught on yet but this forever running in the background app logs the distance you travel and other geek stats when you log in to the PC version.

LiveJournal: simple but rather limited blog client for LiveJournal.

LjBeetle: slightly more sophisticated version of the above.

Mashable: tech news feeder.

Melon: curiously named note app.

My Tracks: superb tracking app for all your geeky stats of walking the dog or going for a jog. Distance, speed etc.

Posterous: blog, share and post to closed groups or the world.

Pulse: news item rss feeder grabber thing.

ROM manager: what every good rooted phone needs to keep up to date with ROMs to flash and other hardcore phone cracking functions like partitioning your SD card. READ UP BEFORE YOU DO ANY OF THIS!

Superuser: Give apps root access. If you don’t know what this means you aint no superuser!

Terminal Emulator: Hell even I don’t know what this does. Pretend your phone is a command prompt and speak to it in a weird way.

Text to Speech (wireshock developers) and Text to Speech (doesn’t even have an about button!): Gives you text to speech. That doesn’t mean voice recognition ok?! Your phone reads text back to you. Limited but functional programs. Text to speech and NOTHING else.

Thinking Space: Mind mapper that syncs nicely to MindMeister.

Titanium Backup: One of the best backup apps that allows you to save your apps and their data so you can flash that new ROM update and return to your previous state without too much disconnection or change anxiety.

TouchDown: email, tasks, calendar app. Syncs with exchange. Has some nice widgets. Allows you to actually move emails to folders. Is it a dirty secret that I want to do that? It’s also £12. Has an excellent demo version that lets you try for 30 days.

Tune Wiki: sing along to your songs as the lyrics come up with this music app.

TweetCaster: nice twitter app for Android.

WordPress: pretty nice WordPress blog app.

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Bruce Darby - Assistive Technology Advisor at the University of Edinburgh